o_holter
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| Lyra Atlas experiences Thanks, I agree - on some points. Raul, my s-state comparison - the stuff I lived with for a long time, learning to know its potential - included the Krell FPB600, which went far beyond my earlier s-state amps (Tandberg, Revox, Yamaha, plus lower ... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences RaulGreat, a solid-state howl in the pack!I am investigating your option right now. A solid state Riaa - Graham Slee Fanfare 3. I have also used a Musical innovations solid state preamp. I replaced it with Einstein the Tube, and have not looked ba... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences I remember when we tried to tweak a Lyra cartridge to the Souther / Clearaudio parallel arm, my audio expert friend and I, back in the early 2000s. Whatever we did, tweaking the arm, weight, azimuth and so on - even tilting the player to help it m... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Larryi - Lyra's track well, at least from the Titan onwards - yes, this is my experience also. Even the Clavis was quite good. Generally, my Titan i experience was very good, though it is worn out (just got it confirmed by microscope at a shop). S... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences I discussed it with a main tube engineer, here in Norway, a year ago, at Gran Canaria. He told me of his "apprentice" time, at an English tube factory in the 60ies and 70ies, and how he later became a tube specialist. It is about the distortion, ... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Drastic and Stingreen, thanks. Drastic, thanks for the info. I don't have the albums you mention. Is it a case of high dynamics or bass on the inner grooves?Raul, considering your comment earlier " I know very well your 3 tube items and the I/O is... | |
| Finally stepping into the hobby after 30 years of watching from the sidelines Hi Cottguy, I have a room ca 20 x 30 feet. After much experimenting I found out that the system plays best in the longest axis of the room. Also, fairly symmetrically placed (on one of the shorter walls). I started with solid-state and big speaker... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Credence clearwater - Heard it through the grapewine, on Cosmos factory. Compared my 3 vinyl editions today - original, mofi and acoustic sounds rti. I prefer the rti. | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Drastic - breakup in left channel - can you give some examples, I’d like to test this in my system also. I have heard that kind of thing before. Is it mainly on the inner part of the record? Can you check, it is associated with mistracking, inward... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Dear all, many thanks, for your viewpoints. Who could doubt that Audiogon discussions help progress? I am grateful to you all.Please note, in my case, we are beyond the zone of obvious errors, bleed, mistrackings, and so on. The Atlas sails throug... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Well, I thank you both, Raul and Nandric.Some more visual checking today - now with a USB microscope. Very interesting, although so far, I haven’t been able to stabilize the setup enough to get sharp close up images of the diamond. It seems to be ... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Nandric - as related above, the test record method doesn't work in my case, I end up with far too much antiskate (2.7), and adjusting by ear I've gone down to 1.5 or so. And I recently got a clear message from SME saying don't use these tracks, in... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Heavier arm - perhaps - I think J Carr wrote that it is possible to tweak the mass of the arm. I thought the SME V would be an OK match. I’ve tried some more mass (damping material) on the headshell and the arm but it didn’t work for me (not even ... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Stingreen, thanks, I agree, the Atlas is great, the best cartridge I've had in my system also. All the more reason to give it optimal conditions. What you say about azimuth is interesting. I will check it out. Can you say a bit more, what you hear... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences I notice, last evening, I ended up at 1.3 |